# Applications Engineering, Architect- Missile Defense

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Exton, Pennsylvania
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $172000-$258000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

You will be working as an Applications Engineering, Architect- Missile Defense at Synopsys. The role involves working on air and missile defense simulations that shape how the DoD evaluates threats, tests algorithms, and trains AI systems.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build high-fidelity models of threat trajectories, including staging events, flight dynamics, and multi-spectral signature behaviors across RF, IR, and other sensor-observable spectra

- Develop and integrate radar phenomenology models that represent how different radar bands and sensor architectures detect, track, and characterize targets in realistic engagement scenarios

- Support the creation of synthetic datasets for AI/ML training, including target-present and target-absent scenarios designed to reduce algorithmic bias and improve model robustness

- Collaborate with signature characterization experts, sensor engineers, and government stakeholders to ensure simulation fidelity aligns with operational requirements and physics-based constraints

- Implement sensing system models within frameworks like STK and AFSIM, representing track fusion, discrimination logic, and custody management across the missile defense kill chain

- Provide technical leadership on modeling requirements, simulation architecture, and fidelity tradeoffs for emerging programs involving generative simulation and AI-enabled battle management

- Integrate threat modeling and sensor simulations into larger analysis and experimentation environments used by DoD customers for system development and algorithm evaluation

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related field with 12+ years of professional experience, or Master's with 10+ years, or PhD with 7+ years

- US citizen required with an active DoD TS/SCI clearance

- Deep domain knowledge in air and missile defense systems, including sensor architectures, threat trajectories, and multi-spectral signature modeling

- Demonstrated experience modeling radar phenomenology and RF sensing systems, including understanding of radar bands, target detection, and sensor-observable behaviors

- Hands-on experience with missile flight dynamics, staging events, and how trajectory behaviors impact sensor observables across the engagement timeline

- Proficiency in MATLAB or Python for building models, scripting interfaces, and integrating with DoD systems and simulation frameworks

- Experience with Systems Tool Kit (STK) and Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration and Modeling (AFSIM) is a strong plus, as is familiarity with track fusion, discrimination algorithms, and battle management concepts

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## Skills

### Required
- MATLAB
- Python
- Systems Tool Kit (STK)
- Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration and Modeling (AFSIM)
- radar phenomenology
- RF sensing systems
- air and missile defense systems
- multi-spectral signature modeling

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